Mar. 11, 2024 7:45p
(WGTD0---Chrystul Kizer was back in a Kenosha courtroom Monday after being on the run for a couple of months.
Kizer is the Milwaukee woman who’s claiming self-defense in the 2018 murder of Randall Volar, the Kenosha man who allegedly sex trafficked her and other girls. The case has gotten national attention.
Awaiting trial, Kizer had been out of jail after community groups posted a $400,000 bond.
In January, Kizer was accused of violating that bond for attacking the Milwaukee man she’d been living with.
Police were called, and bail jumping charges were among the recommended counts. But by the time police were ready to actually arrest her, Kizer had fled to Louisiana.
In court Monday, District Attorney Michael Graveley said Kizer had gone there with the victim in the Milwaukee case. Graveley said it appeared Kizer had planned to live there because she had applied for a job.
Court Commissioner Heather Iverson set bail on the new charges at $60,000.
Kizer is due back in court on Friday for a motions hearing in the 2018 murder case.
There was no mention Monday on whether the groups that posted the original bond will have to forfeit the money.
In arguing for a $100,000 bond Monday, Graveley pointed out similarities in the January altercation and the 2018 murder. In both cases, the victims' vehicles were factors. Following Volar's murder, Kizer allegedly drove off with his BMW. In the January case, Kizer had hid the man's car keys in a dispute over his vehicle.
At the time of the 2018 murder, Kizer was out on bond awaiting trial in a car theft for which she was later convicted.
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